Senator GREIG (7:53 PM) —The Democrats oppose this amendment principally because we take a strong counterview to the principle that the government is trying to establish here. Specifically, we are of the view that the law ought not to have retrospective application in altering rights and liberties. I will not go into further detail on that, because I can speak further to that when I move the next Democrat amendment, which presents the counterposition. To pick up on the point that Senator Ludwig has raised, if we were to support Democrat amendment (2) following this government amendment, if we were to substitute our amendment (2) on sheet 3230 for what the government now proposes, given that we use the word `time' instead of `date', that would very much prevent the kind of Melville Island situation that we witnessed recently.